Shows
WAKE: Cold Reading Finnegans WakeEpisode 39: 4.1 (Part 2), p613-628There's nothing quite like ticking off a bucket list item, and today is the day, where Toby and TJ come to the end of the long reading road to finally finish Finnegans Wake. Before we get there, though, we have superstar guest Neil Wechsler to guide us through his favourite section of the book, along with passionate opinions on Hollywood hypocrisy, problematic shortcuts, and how the unique structure of the Wake is not a joke, nor a gimmick, but in fact proof that the human race is not entirely doomed. Joyce gives us an ending that's worth the wait...
2025-04-161h 51
FrontiersLive from PDFC 2025 Live set from the Sheraton Downtown Phoenix on 2025-01-04 for PDFC.(00:00) ZOYA - Nostalgia (Solarstone Retouch) [Pure Trance](06:04) Foxhill - Waiting On The Beach [Pure Progressive](11:13) Deep Fog - Trembling [As You Are](15:52) Mind Of Us - Atalaya [onedotsixtwo](19:57) Discognition - Gotham Summer [As You Are](24:16) Basil O'Glue & Nomas - Untold (Martin LeBlanc Remix) [Pure Trance](30:03) Pico Boulevard - Xenomorph (Shutdown Mix) [JOOF](35:52) Bryn Liedl - Avalon [Euphonic](40:07) Airwave - Tundra [Airwave](43:06) Facade - Altona Part 2 [JOOF](47:06) Lange - Save The Bees [Create](49:07) JP Lantieri...
2025-01-0600 min
FoxhillLive from PDFC 2025Live set from the Sheraton Downtown Phoenix on 2025-01-04 for PDFC.
(00:00) ZOYA - Nostalgia (Solarstone Retouch) [Pure Trance]
(06:04) Foxhill - Waiting On The Beach [Pure Progressive]
(11:13) Deep Fog - Trembling [As You Are]
(15:52) Mind Of Us - Atalaya [onedotsixtwo]
(19:57) Discognition - Gotham Summer [As You Are]
(24:16) Basil O'Glue & Nomas - Untold (Martin LeBlanc Remix) [Pure Trance]
(30:03) Pico Boulevard - Xenomorph (Shutdown Mix) [JOOF]
(35:52) Bryn Liedl - Avalon [Euphonic]
(40:07) Airwave - Tundra [Airwave]
(43:06) Facade - Altona Part 2 [JOOF]
(47:06) Lange - Save The Bees [Create]
(49:07) JP Lantieri - Twenty Something (Rick Pier O'Neil Remix) [Flemcy]
(52:59) Genix - Let It Go [Anjunabeats]
(56:14...
2025-01-031h 00
WAKE: Cold Reading Finnegans WakeEpisode 32: 3.3 (Part 2), pp496-516It’s always a treat when your smartest friend can join you for a chat: especially when it's the kind of smartest friend who makes you feel smarter yourself. Yes, award-winning visionary Neil Wechsler is back with us again to read a part of 3.3, roll past the 500 page mark, and to get deep into the weeds on meaning, immersion, expectation, and whether or not it’s actually a bad thing to be pretentious. It’s likely a good thing that we gave ourselves a pass on pretentiousness, because then we immediately get right into name-checking Socrates, Freud, Borges, Albee, Camus...
2024-12-181h 36
WAKE: Cold Reading Finnegans WakeEpisode 21: 2.2 (Part 3), pp293-308Welcome to WAKE, where language is king! This week we reach the thrilling conclusion of the Night Lessons episode, and get into a little bit of analysis amidst the chaos that reigns when TJ's internet drops out mid-recording. We discuss Neil's ongoing beef against Cognitive Science and the laws of language, discover the benefits to earning knowledge, and establish all the reasons we should trust Joyce. After three weeks of column-based fun, this is the satisfying conclusion you were looking for, as we spit in the eye of all those purists who said that Night Lessons would be the...
2024-10-011h 20
WAKE: Cold Reading Finnegans WakeEpisode 20: 2.2 (Part 2), pp277-292Just like a well-ordered barndance, Toby, TJ, and Neil shuffle one step the right to find new dance partners, with all new takes on the mighty columns of Night Lessons! With footnotes that would make David Foster Wallace blush, Latin, French, and a parenthetical that spans five entire pages, Joyce is really making us work this week. Come sit in the back of the classroom, keep your spitballs to yourself, and try not to carve anything into the desks.
This week's readers: Neil Wechsler, Toby Malone, TJ Young
Progress: 292 pages complete, 336 pages to go; 46.5% read.
2024-09-2541 min
WAKE: Cold Reading Finnegans WakeEpisode 19: 2.2 (Part 1), pp260-277Grab your notebooks and start practicing your filthiest marginalia, it's Night Lessons time! When confronted with the most logistically challenging chapter of the Wake (columns! footnotes! diagrams! marginalia!), Toby and TJ sent out the Neil-Signal, and brought in our favourite purist-in-the-nicest sense, Neil Wechsler, to establish order. In this first part of three episodes reading this complex chapter, Toby, TJ and Neil inhabit the schooldesks of Shem, Shaun, and Issy, and have some fun navigating the minutiae.
This week's readers: Neil Wechsler, Toby Malone, TJ Young
Progress: 277 pages complete, 351 pages to go; 44.11% read.
...
2024-09-1847 min
WAKE: Cold Reading Finnegans WakeEpisode 10: 1.5 (Part 2), pp113-125Neil is back, and we are going to hear some opinions! TJ and Toby welcome the brilliant Neil Wechsler back to the pod to finish reading 1.5 and then get into some analysis of what we've heard over the last two episodes. We'll talk about the unexpected benefits of reading aloud, find out what feels just like a really good university course, and establish the Neil Wechsler drinking game to get you sauced.
This week's readers: Neil Wechsler, Toby Malone, TJ Young
Progress: 125 pages complete, 503 pages to go; 19.9% read.
Contextual Notes
Neil...
2024-07-161h 06
WAKE: Cold Reading Finnegans WakeEpisode 9: 1.5 (Part 1), pp104-113The purists are here! The purists are here!
Toby and TJ get legit with the presence of long time lover of Joyce, a man who has read the Wake multiple times, and has used it as a major inspiration for his own work. Neil Wechsler is your favourite playwright's favourite playwright: an award-winning, cerebral, self-deprecating ball of energy who is here to show us that there are plenty of ways to be a purist. This week we read the first half of Chapter 1.5, and talk Beckett, Freud, and Albee, and discuss the pitfalls of fixating on the rabbit hole.
...
2024-07-0954 min
NBDA: Bicycle Retail RadioA Beneficial Force in the World - The Bicycle RetailerThis episode’s guest is Neil Wechsler, NBDA P2 Retail Management Consultant and part owner in Montlake Bicycle Shop located in Seattle, Washington. After 40 years of running small to medium sized retail companies, Neil switched roles and began consulting retailers to success and profitability. Infatuated with the bicycle business, Neil has taken every opportunity to get education, training, and professional guidance available, helping retailers with almost any aspect of bicycle retail management. Neil can address your concerns about staff development, inventory planning and control, vendor relations, financial analysis, continuous improvement programs, succession strategy and business valuation. Listen in as Neil sh...
2021-11-0251 min
LIGHTS UP!BONUS - GRENADINE by Neil WechslerAs part of it's bimonthly radio program, The ETC Digital Theatre Hour on WUTC 88.1 FM (an NPR affiliate station), The Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga presented Neil Wechsler's play GRENADINE. "GRENADINE is pure fun, it is fantastically delicious, engagingly imaginative and even pushes the button of your heart. While simple in story, it is massive in the message of not taking oneself or one's journey too seriously," mentions Garry Lee Posey (ETC's founder and executive artistic director)The play follows a group of cohorts on a journey to find the long lost love of one of that group's li...
2021-09-2059 min
LIGHTS UP!BONUS - GRENADINE by Neil WechslerAs part of it's bimonthly radio program, The ETC Digital Theatre Hour on WUTC 88.1 FM (an NPR affiliate station), The Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga presented Neil Wechsler's play GRENADINE. "GRENADINE is pure fun, it is fantastically delicious, engagingly imaginative and even pushes the button of your heart. While simple in story, it is massive in the message of not taking oneself or one's journey too seriously," mentions Garry Lee Posey (ETC's founder and executive artistic director)The play follows a group of cohorts on a journey to find the long lost love of one of that group's li...
2021-09-2059 min
Online Theatre Development CollaborativeFaceTime TheatreJoseph Sheridan and Caroline Reckers, students at Miami University, discuss the early stages of their theatre project that will incorporate FaceTime.
2021-07-1711 min
Online Theatre Development CollaborativeOnline School vs. Online TheatreEver wonder how online school relates to online theatre? My daughter and two of her friends talk about the similarities, and brainstorm how they would create an online three-person production of HAMILTON.
2021-04-3007 min
Online Theatre Development CollaborativeAustin Lamewona and Brooke Vespoli, How to Write a SongAustin Lamewona and Brooke Vespoli talk about their exciting new musical and how they’ve managed to collaborate remotely during the pandemic.
2021-04-2613 min
Online Theatre Development CollaborativeGlenn Stillar, Turning the Camera OutwardsGlenn Stillar, a filmmaker and professor of Digital Arts Communication at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, talks about two of his "shortshort" films, GUBBINS and I'M A BIT CHILLY, and how "turning the camera outwards" might be a useful strategy for online theatre development. Links to the two films, each just over a minute: GUBBINS, https://vimeo.com/433031962; I'M A BIT CHILLY, https://vimeo.com/433031104.
2021-04-1813 min
Online Theatre Development CollaborativeMonique Vukovic, Podcast Name ChangeNYC-based actor Monique Vukovic talks about her online experiences during the pandemic, and we brainstorm a new name and direction for the podcast!
2021-04-1410 min
Online Theatre Development CollaborativeVictoria Pérez, Raíces Theatre CompanyVictoria Pérez, Artistic Director of Raíces Theatre Company, shares key insights into her current performance in the one-woman show, The Year of Magical Thinking, a digital production by the Irish Classical Theatre Company. She also talks about her online teaching this past year at Shea’s Performing Arts Center and the virtual staged reading of El Closet Mágico by Raíces Theatre Company. Victoria discusses the global reach of this virtual reading, and other enduring benefits that the online space can provide.
2021-04-1213 min
Online Theatre Development CollaborativeStacey Whitmire, NYC to L.A.Actor Stacey Whitmire talks about her transition from NYC to L.A. during the pandemic, the differences between the two cities from an actor’s perspective, and some useful tips for online theatre.
2021-04-1010 min
Online Theatre Development CollaborativeJohn and Dion DiDonna, Phantasmagoria OrlandoJohn and Dion DiDonna of Phantasmagoria Orlando share their stories of how they shifted to live online performance during the pandemic. They talk about the connections they’ve formed with different audiences and the useful tips they’ve learned in creating for, and teaching in, the online space. (Photo of John and Dion by Chris Bridges.)
2021-04-0613 min
Online Theatre Development Collaborative[elephants] collective, Telethon TelethonIan Ball, Maïna Béland-Rahm, Zev Mair, Michaela Mar, and Michael Reinhart, core members of [elephants] collective, a Toronto-based experimental theatre/ performance collective, provide unique perspectives on online theatre. They talk about their current project, Telethon Telethon, and discuss how it raises key questions relevant to their artistic practice.
2021-04-0512 min
Online Theatre Development CollaborativeEvan Mitchell, Phone TheatreEvan Mitchell, a theatre arts teacher in North Carolina, talks about the phone-based theatre projects he and his students created during the pandemic.
2021-04-0111 min
Online Theatre Development CollaborativeMatteo Esposito, Theatre vs. the MoonMatteo Esposito, a Canadian playwright with autism, talks about his writing, and weighs in on the age-old question, Theatre vs. the Moon.
2021-03-3109 min
Online Theatre Development CollaborativeDana Hall and Pamela Morgan, This Moment ProductionsDana Hall and Pamela Morgan talk about why they co-founded This Moment Productions, a virtual theatre production company. They tell us about the projects they've done, the lessons they've learned, and what they have in store.
2021-03-2909 min
Online Theatre Development CollaborativeJason Jamerson, University of Nebraska OmahaJason Jamerson talks about his exploration of 3D virtual environments and the project he’s been working on as Professor of Scenic Design at the University of Nebraska Omaha.
2021-03-2511 min
Online Theatre Development CollaborativeGaurav Singh, Kaivalya PlaysGaurav Singh, General Manager of Kaivalya Plays, a company based in New Delhi, India, talks about how the company adapted during the pandemic, and shares his insights into online theatre.
2021-03-2209 min
Online Theatre Development CollaborativeBen GougeonBen Gougeon, Artistic Director of Davenport Junior Theatre, talks about his company’s virtual programs during the pandemic, and shares his observations on online theatre.
2021-03-1808 min
Online Theatre Development CollaborativeAnnette Daniels TaylorAnnette Daniels Taylor shares her thoughts on online theatre with Neil Wechsler.
2021-03-1409 min
Online Theatre Development CollaborativeTJ Young and Toby MaloneTJ Young and Toby Malone talk with Neil Wechsler about what theatre companies and schools can take away from this past year of online theatre.
2021-03-0712 min
The Evolution of HorrorBONUS EP: A Brief History of Horror Music with Neil BrandHappy bonus horror treat! Here's the full, uninterrupted chat with film musician / composer / historian Neil Brand about a history of horror scores. From Nosferatu through to Under The Skin, we cover the trends, the traits and the evolution of the horror score over the last one hundred years. ENJOY! Neil Brand is a film historian, musician and composer. You can find details of his upcoming events at http://www.neilbrand.com/ or follow him on twitter: @NeilKBrand Mike Muncer is a TV & Podcast Producer and Film Journalist. You can find him on twitter: @TheMovieMike He a...
2017-09-2455 min